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Las Vegas, NV (USA), September 2016 - SAP SE has announced the planned release of SAP® SuccessFactors® Learning Marketplace, a new solution that will extend learning to customers, external communities, and partners. "Today more than ever, learning leaders are working to help their organizations increase competitiveness, revenue, and customer satisfaction," said David Ludlow, group vice president of Solution Management at SAP SuccessFactors.  » MORE

Wokingham (UK), September 2016 - Volume has established one of the UK’s first "Centres of Excellence" for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and smart machines: Volume.XO. Now, as a leader in these technologies, Volume wants to share its expertise with the world of learning and development (L&D). » MORE

Leinfelden-Echterdingen (GER), September 2016 - The next-generation workplace with Office 2016 and Windows 10 offers many new methods of collaboration: agile, digital, and mobile. To take advantage of the full potential of the applications, Know How! AG offers comprehensive training for employees. The Office 2016 learning program combines formal eLearning with performance support for all learning needs and instances. The training is available for all typical mobile devices - and in eight languages. » MORE

London (UK), September 2016 - Course Creator is a new tool developed by health-and-safety eLearning and software specialists Safety Media. The idea is that it will allow firms to use off-the-shelf content in a brand-new and innovative way. » MORE

Zurich (CH), September 2016 - Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has decided to deploy the Stage authoring tool from CREALOGIX Digital Learning for the development of learning content for its employees. The Zurich-based company won SBB’s public tender for “Content Authoring & Delivery” and integrated its product into the system environment of the Swiss rail and transport company within a few months. Working together, they have developed over 100 learning programmes for use throughout the company since January 2016.  » MORE

Gloucestershire (UK), September 2016 - This month, Fosway Group, one of Europe’s leading independent HR analysts, marks twenty years of learning and HR technology research since its inception in 1996. As part of its anniversary, Fosway is opening its archive of research, sharing some of its original papers, models, and insights. Its analysts will also be exploring what the next two decades will bring, as organisations try to keep pace with the digital revolution. » MORE

Derry (UK), September 2016 - Northern Ireland's Learning Pool has acquired Mind Click, a leading eLearning company with offices in Nottingham and Brighton. The acquisition continues Learning Pool's exceptional growth story and provides a compelling eLearning offering to companies who need a range of low-cost online learning solutions to improve organisational performance. » MORE

London (UK), September 2016 - Leading financial education provider ifs University College is to change its name to The London Institute of Banking & Finance. The new name will come into effect in September 2016, coinciding with the start of the new academic year. » MORE

London (UK), September 2016 - A new paper by Professor Martin Kilduff of the UCL School of Management has won the prestigious "Best Annals Paper of the Year Award" from the Academy of Management Annals. The article addresses the question of whether people in departments, organizations, and even entire industries can experience the same emotions at the same time. And if this is the case, what the causes and consequences of shared emotional states are. » MORE

Saarbruecken (GER), September 2016 - Earlier this month, IMC opened a new subsidiary in Singapore. The Saarbrucken, Germany-based full-service digital-learning provider’s expansion in Asia aims to foster a closer co-operation with its existing customers doing business there, as well as to build new business relations with customers in a region that remains resilient and continues to be the engine of the global economy. » MORE

Holywood (UK), September 2016 - G-Cloud is a UK-government initiative set up to encourage the adoption of cloud services across the whole of the public sector. It aims to simplify how the public sector buys and delivers services by creating a digital marketplace of services that can be easily scaled up or down, based on the changing needs of a business and its users. » MORE

Montreal (CA), September 2016 – Zavango Corporation, a leading provider of video-based knowledge-sharing software, has announced the company’s being named a 2016 Hot Vendor in Learning by Aragon Research for its Ascend software. Zavango was included in the Aragon Research Note among six vendors who are innovating in the learning market and representing where the market is headed. » MORE

Delray Beach, FL (USA), September 2016 - Personalized learning is a process of providing learning experiences based on employees’ professional and personal needs and interests and being able to access that learning in a venue and time frame that is best for the employee. The goal of this approach is to tailor learning to the employee and, therefore, make it more attractive and impactful.  » MORE

Plymouth (UK), September 2016 - Serious results with serious fun: The business case for eLearning games is being hosted by award-winning eLearning company, Sponge UK at 1500 (BST) on Thursday, September 15. » MORE

Birmingham (UK), September 2016 - Sharing expertise at the internationally renowned World of Learning Conference, taking place 19-20 October 2016 at Birmingham’s NEC, will be a host of L&D innovators, practitioners, and thought leaders. » MORE

New York, NY (USA), September 2016 - The number of free and open educational resources (OER) has grown rapidly in recent years, opening up new possibilities for educators to add great content to their classrooms. But how do you find these resources, and once you’ve got them, how do you get your students access? You could just send them an external URL, but in doing so, you lose all the advantages of your institution’s overall video strategy. » MORE

Graz (A), September 2016 - This year, the sixteenth i-KNOW Conference connects renowned scientists with innovative industry partners for a "data-driven future",  turning Graz into a hotspot for big data, smart production, and digital transformation. i-KNOW 2016 takes place 18-19 October at Messe Congress Graz. » MORE

London (UK), September 2016 - The eLN annual conference has been renamed eLN CONNECT and will be its biggest ever event, moving to the Minories Suite at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in central London. Open to members and non-members alike, registrations for this major conference are now being taken. » MORE

Lyon (F), September 2016 - ICORE and MOOQ are joining forces and inviting all experts and practitioners to a joint workshop on open education for all. It will take place at the eleventh edition of the EC-TEL Conference , 13 September 2016 in Lyon, from 09:00-13:00. » MORE